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Agreed, but greening up would have been a cinch.

Haile Selassie has just won the 2.30. I am convinced, as its rider went past the others, he called out A bi sin ya.

could have 100s about the great athlete

African Nations final kicks off at 4pm, is live on Eurosport. Egypt look a big price at 2.4 for me (especially without the showpony Mido) though planning to watch the first 10 mins before getting involved

not too many worries for Denman backers

Very tempted to back Denman but bottled out in the end as over sticks.

An amazing 1.7m matched on that race!

Bak

it was only over very soft Hurdles

Egypt on the drift pre kick off

Always thought that a hurdle was just a hurdle. OK, there are grand national hurdles but they're a different species altogether!

Just shows how much I know about horse racing!

Bak

most racecourses have 2 separate courses - a hurdles course and a chase course.

The chase course has big fences, ditches and water jumps, like the national though not as big. The hurdles course has thin hurdles which effectively fall down when hit and at worst cause a loss of balance. also they are only about 2.5 ft high compared to the chase fences which can be 6 ft high and also several feet wide

I've had a small problem with my basic betangel this afternoon. The green 'In-play' banner has been in the middle of the screen instead of at the top, and it has obscured the Back odds of the 4th horse down.

Is this for Scrip please?

drop an email to scrip at optic

Steve...Thanks for the info on hurdles. Much appreciated.

no probs Bak

i think there is a need for us to have a day at Haydock for a full education :-) im sure john would be up for it

When it's nice and warm

Am green on the African cup :-)

You should send an email to support schiff, I don't have the bandwidth to deal directly with problems.

BTW All, I am going to the Reading vs Soton match this evening after I was kindly offered a ticket. I'll wave so you can see me on the TV!

5.40 at nad al sheeba unreal

fav was trading at 2.6 to 2.7 then someone took the book out down to 2.2 to 2.3 on several occasions beofre it bounced back each time - managed to catch the last 2 spike downs :-)

whoever it was did their dough lol - and plenty of it

Is there liquidity in those races Steve?

The bigger races yes, but most of it comes to the market in the last 3 or 4 minutes so its a bit hectic, but in the last race over 150k was matched on the fav in the last 5 mins.

the swings tend to be quite violent but can therefore be very profitable

awful game the ANC final - nailed on to go to penalties?